While on the general assignment desk at Reuters, I played a key role in coverage for city government, schools and police protests that gained national attention. Was the main reporter in the streets of Chicago after city officials released dashboard video from October 2014 when officer Jason Van Dyke fatally shot 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times. Provided multiple updates for the website, and also provided immediate updates using social media. Assisted in ongoing coverage of that high-profile shooting death and other shootings in which blacks were killed by the Chicago Police Department.

Some of the most high profile killings of blacks by the Chicago Police Department were the December shootings of Bettie Jones and Quintonio LeGrier.Family members of Jones, 55, said police were called after LeGrier, 19, threatened his father with a metal baseball bat. Jones, who lived in the first-floor apartment, was shot through the door, according to her cousin, Evelyn Glover. The police officer who shot Jones, also shot and killed LeGrier, a black college student, whose mother, Janet Cooksey, said suffered from mental illness.

The photos and the video clip below shows what I captured on my iPhone during months of protests after the release of the McDonald video and the slayings of Jones, a grandmother of 10 and LeGrier.​​[Click on photos for stories]